The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Family Secrets Upstate New York

Written by Kim Edwards
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: January 4, 2011
Duration: 16:44:27

This was Kim Edwards’s second novel.

The Lake of Dreams is a powerful family drama and an unforgettable story of love lost and found.

Lucy Jarrett is at a crossroads in her life, still haunted by her father’s unresolved death a decade earlier. She returns to her hometown in Upstate New York, The Lake of Dreams, and, late one night, she cracks the lock of a window seat and discovers a collection of objects. They appear to be idle curiosities, but soon Lucy realizes that she has stumbled across a dark secret from her family’s past, one that will radically change her—and the future of her family—forever.

Edwards is at her best when highlighting the strain between her characters.

“Ann Marie Lee’s nuanced narration gives a sense of wonder to this story of a woman who is uncovering the layers of the past. After many years away, Lucy returns home after her mother’s car accident. When she finds a box of old letters and connects them to the image of a woman in the stained glass window of a local chapel, she begins to delve in to the mysteries of her family’s past. As she uncovers shocking secrets about her ancestry, she begins to face her father’s untimely death, her uncle’s betrayal, and the man she left behind. While Lee’s measured tone and deliberate pacing make the novel’s character voices a bit stilted, her narration still propels the listener through the story.”— AudioFile